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Mine neither, and I'd guess, they wouldn't show up even if they suddenly announced terminal brain, lung and pancreatic cancer on Christmas Day. I'm currently looking at a shortlist of around thirty terminally ill (mostly famous) folk and one Jihadi John, assuming we're allowed him next year.

There is however, twenty-four living members of the Heath government, most of them ministers.

That's quite a miss. Did he have any health trouble? Far as I know, it was a Seamus Heaney case: looked frail for a while, but nothing publicly declared.

He was on Newsnight the other night and looked in fairly decent nick for someone who was alleged to be gravely ill. I suspect chinese whispers.

Geoffrey Howe now dead: http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3839&p=238636 Man, that Casual Politics guy is reaping folk faster than David Quantick's Showbiz Pals...

Never mind "Three 6 Mafia 1, Scorsese 0", at this rate Scorsese might outlive the entire band.

Someone told me he is dead and gave a link to this post - but the link only says he is ill. Here you go. It's meant to be the same person.

Out of curiosity, what is the 2016 for 2016? Other than what I can make an educated guess on (though 2016 names on one deadpool does seem a bit much...).

Sorry to hear that.

It probably didn't help when they were picking, say, William Hartnell 15 years after his well publicised death. Modern Deathlist doesn't try scoring hits on Tony Hart or Leslie Nielsen in 2015 these days... Though they did have a minor slip up in 2008, I seem to recall.

For ease of access: Deathlist years by number of hits 2008 (14/50), 2003 (14/50) 2013 (13/50), 2006 (13/50) 2012 (12/50), 2009 (12/50), 2005 (12/50), 2004 (12/50) 2015 (11/50) 2014 (10/50), 2007 (10/50), 2002 (10/50), 2001 (10/50), 2000 (10/50), 1999 (10/50) 2010 (9/50), 1997 (9/50), 1995 (9/50), 1994 (9/50) 1998 (8/50) 2011 (7/50), 1996 (7/50) 1993 (5/56), 1992 (5/37) 1990 (3/42), 1989 (3/32) 1987 (1/31) 1991 (0/40) First though - man, I forgot how bad 2011 did. Secondly, the omens are good for at least one more hit since there's never been an 11/50 score before. Though, of the years ranked above 2015 as it stands, here is the number of hits scored by expected peoples ie terminally ill, months to live types, or those who were in the news for being poorly. 2003 - 6 2004 - 2 2005 - 4 2006 - 4 2008 - 8 2009 - 7 2012 - 4 2013 - 7 2015 - 3 Given many of the more dire health cases have clung on (12, including at least four terminal cases we know of), that makes 2015's 11/50 so far even more remarkable. It's 72% held up by old people not waking up one day. Mind you, if Crowe, the Thai King, and someone like Harper go in the last three months, we'll have the numbers and the stats akin to 2008 and 2003. What this proves, other than I like lists, however, no one knows.

I bet his diagnosis was fake. Bit to go yet before he's Ryan Buelling it...

But surely the problem of i-player makes a mockery of this. Kids can have laptops in their rooms and watch it without any Parental input. Yes it was scary when we were kids but we would always watch in a family environment and the scare could be put into context. Doctor Who is meant to be the flagship family drama. I loved Saturday's episode but Mrs B who works with preschool children knows that the kids will see it whether on Saturday night or at another time. That's two points. The overnights are lower in part due to people leaving the show, in part due to the opposition of the world cup, and in part due to the later time slot. My earlier, more pertinent point, was that due to on demand viewing (as you mention above), none of that really matters a toss these days.

Last weekends episode was on at 8.25 and Mummy on the Orient Express around the same time because it was seen as "too scary" for kids. Pyramids of Mars was originally shown at 5.45 and the bloody Autons were on at quarter past five. Clearly Mary Whitehouse got the last laugh. It's on far too late.

More like using a probability to prove an indefinable. Doctor Who probably will get a split season or gap year again soon, because the BBC prefer it being on in the Spring, because Steven Moffat will probably hand over to a successor within the next three years, and because Peter Capaldi (sadly, as I think he's been fantastic) can't last forever in the role. There's been a lot of press lately - including from the BBC news site! - which suggests modern media either doesn't understand the changing face of TV consumption, or rather, ignores it in the face of "a good story". In reality, Doctor Who is one of the BBC's biggest earners (it brings back something stupid like ten times its budget on overseas sales and merchandise), has lead the way for the Beeb moving towards online (the season opener had nearly two hundred thousand Iphone views within 24 hours, for example, getting it a place on the *weekly* charts that were released on the Sunday ahead of shows which had an entire week of downloads, and Iplayer gets around 1.3 million downloads of the show a month, not counting folk who stream online), etc. They'd replace the show runner, the lead actor, the format (ala the Pertwee era), before cutting their noses off.

This was the first I'd heard she'd died. Leaves the top 3 in the DDP within 3 points of each other. And prevents nul points for yours truly.

An award winning media executive, Sam Maturo, has stage 4 larynx cancer. I've never heard of him, Google barely has, Wiki certainly hasn't, and he wont get any DDP qualifying obits at all. Mentioned solely as he's probably fecked, and he might sneak Deathrace points for someone.

Michelmore on the basis that, having said on this forum a few days ago that he'll probably see his century, I've now jinxed him.

RIP to him. It was the Casual Politics guy in the library with the boring questions, right?

C-sections can be delayed by all manners of things, from the mundane (red tape) to the serious (health issue). A family member needed one a while back due to a pressing medical issue, and the hospital still managed to delay it by 12 hours! So a planned one with no issues could easily be delayed by the hospital into the next day.

Which is an excellent argument against the democratization of the Deathlist. Most of the Drop 40 is old people who get picked every year. And the few ill people who break through in cultural osmosis have been hanging on this year.

The Daily Mail is covering it, with regards to the DDP.

They qualified outright by finishing in the top 3 of their group in the last Cup, and taking South Africa and Wales to the wire. But there's only 4 teams in a group - how the fuck is this a sustainable system? Doesn't that leave 24 teams that just re-qualify and 8 qualifiers? Four groups of 5. Top 3 in each group qualifies for the next World Cup. Leaving 8 spots for the other 100 odd rugby playing nations. Rugby is still very much sorted into the "haves" and "have nots". So you'll see nations like Georgia who are getting into it quite the thing, but theres no promotion to the six nations or any European cups, so they only face top opposition at a World Cup.

They qualified outright by finishing in the top 3 of their group in the last Cup, and taking South Africa and Wales to the wire.

I am indeed, edited now. As for Sallis, a search suggests we spoke on him a month ago, and I managed to not mangle up my eye conditions then. Norden was interviewed about his health on the Radio 4 by Robert Peston in June.